Essays Tagged: "fossils"
"Little Green Men or Just Little Microscopic Organisms? - the question of Life on Mars"
rganisms such as microbes or bacteria. Proof of this was found in a meteorite containing the fossils of the microscopic organisms intact. Two highly regarded chemistry professors from Stanford, ... anet,"says Jack Farmer, an Ames researcher who calls himself an "exopaleontologist"--a searcher for fossils on other worlds. The redness of Mars is due to the chemical assault known as oxidation, whic ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
Research Paper on Charles Warwin
forms. Later the theory was added to when Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, a French biologist, showed that fossils proved change in species. However, Darwin theorized that evolution occurred by observing the ... n proven that the Earth has existed for millions of years, before the dawn of man. The discovery of fossils that date back before the oldest skeleton of man is a factor on how old the earth is. Also, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
How Man evolved
ved. He was smarter, more efficient, and walked up-right. And heleaded to us, Homo Sapiens A lot of fossils, bones, and teeth have been found at variousplaces throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia that ... animals were greatly spread out onthe African and, later, on the Eurasian continents. Although many fossils, bones and teethhave been found, the way of life of these mammals, and their evolutionary al ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Malaria
Great Paper Great PaperMalariaMalaria parasites have been with us since the beginning of time, and fossils of mosquitoes up to thirty million years old show that malaria's vector has existed for just ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Creation, Evolution and Intervention
d on earth change because of changes in their environment and their function on earth. The earliest fossils ever discovered are from single celled organisms which resemble today's bacteria. People who ... al upon the interpretations of the fossil record, which many consider to be incomplete because many fossils can not be found. For this reason, there are many different views about what the fossil reco ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Human Evolution and the Fossil Record
species on the phylogeny of man, and a discussion of dating methods used to pinpoint the age of the fossils.This essay will begin with a brief discussion of dating techniques. In the study of hominid ... ctive C-14, which has a half life of 5770 years. This makes this method useful for dating of recent fossils, with good accuracy, up to 50,000 years back. After 5770 years, half of the carbon-14 in a f ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences
Evolution
ter form. In the 1700s, naturalists, Comte de Buffon and Baron Cuvier concluded with the studies of fossils and comparative anatomy that life on earth had endured many changes through a long period of ... e to question their existence and that is how evolutionary thoughts became.People started observing fossils and noticed that the fossils closely related other animals but not exactly and that supporte ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin
Paleontologists: This is a report on the career and on carnivores and herbivores.
enmicroscopic pollen. They also don't just find and collect different specimens, they alsostudy the fossils, the rocks the fossils are buried in, the rocks they also lie above, below,and near the foss ... pinosauraus, a much bigger creature. It had alonger snout, or sail, and stood much higher.Carnivore fossils are quite rare compared to that if herbivores.Carnivores ate herbivores which meant plant ea ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
A History of Human Ancestors. What theories make up what we know about our earliest ancestors? What are the characteristics of our different homo ancestors?
ve emerged right out of Africa, and then spread worldwide.The recent discovery of the H. antecessor fossils at the Gran Dolina and Sima de los Huesos sites in Spain, however, conflicted with the "Out ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Evolution of Homo Erectus. Details physical and social evolution from Aegygptopithecus to the appearance of Homo Erectus. Improve: Mixed up "hominoid" and "hominid" a bit.
pened sometime after 35-33 million years ago (m.y.a.) (Turnbaugh 190). Dating back to this time are fossils of Aegygptopithecus. This genus of primate was a fruit-eating, arboreal quadruped that was a ... ainforests opened up new ecological niches that inspired rapid diversification of hominoid species. Fossils found in The Rift Valley, China, and Europe indicate that at least twenty-three different ge ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
" Sunset on the Savanna" by James Shreeve, Discover, July 1996, pp.116-125.
des anthropologists said that we became bipedalto survive on the African savanna. But a slew of new fossils have destroyed thatappealing notion and left researchers groping for a new paradigm."Sunset ... a, Africa was shown to be the home continent of our ancestors. Because the locations of these early fossils were arid grasslands, it seemed to support the savanna theory. When combined with the 'feel ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Plate Tectonics: It contains a general description, such as the origination of the theory, an explanation of the theory, and how it was proved.
ime because he had no way to prove it. There were some things that back his theory up like the same fossils being found on different continents with different climates and the way the edges of the con ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences
This essay is about the natrual scientist, Charles Darwin. In this essay i will describe Darwins improtance to the science community
specimens as possible. It was his job to record the weather, geological features, plants, animals, fossils, rocks, minerals, indigenous people and anything else that he saw. It was through this voyag ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Anopheles Quadrimaculatus - Common malaria mosquito; Effect of an introduced species on foreign land
es have been with us since the dawn of time. They probably originated in Africa along with mankind. Fossils of mosquitoes up to 30 million years old show that malaria was present well before written h ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
History of Charles Darwin
n kept his theories and thoughts about how we all got here to himself.In South America Darwin found fossils of extinct animals that were similar to modern species. On the Galapagos Islands in the Paci ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin
Darwin's theory of evolution by Nathan Belisle (if it is true or not)
erials on Earth's surface. As it is written in The Cradle of Life The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils "Indeed, the notion that CHON-containing monomers might be easy to make on the primordial Ea ... makes me choose a pro stand in which it says"If Darwin's theory of evolution is correct, the first fossils should be far simpler than a trilobite--as indeed they are"(Brownlee 128). Because this help ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin
Creationism in Schools
f that the earth is much older than this. Dinosaurs roamed the earth millions of years ago and left fossils for scientists to study. So how did the dinosaurs get there if the world is only 6,000 years ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
The Study of Archaeology
through the examination of material remains of previous human societies. These remains include the fossils (preserved bones) of humans, food remains, the ruins of buildings, and human artifacts--item ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Archaeology
The Debate Over Early Humans
ists develop theories as to how humans evolved. However, different people who find the same kind of fossils have come up with different theories, leading to arguments about the order of species in whi ... t the evolutionary process. Whenever a new fossil discovery occurs, new questions arise about these fossils. Articles are often written by people who wish to attempt to answer these questions. These a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Discuss the life and work of famous Ancient Egypt archaelogoist (Egyptologist) Flinders Petrie.
ather Matthew, a famous navigator and explorer. Petrie's mother Anne had a love for science, namely fossils and natural minerals. When he was 4, Petrie became so ill that his mother became convinced h ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt